Top day out laning

A rambler trap?

Nice, I like bits like that, interesting but not too scary, a few whole lanes like that would be nice especially as you won't end up chipping mud off the chassis for the next fortnight. Might eat tyres though.

A big lump of wood with nails in it, just under the water in a puddle.

My road tyres are fine.

The even more nuts thing is - Andy has done it the other way......

Did you take any pics, or contact the police? These things are cropping up in various parts of the country and are catching out horses, farmers, mountain rescue and anyone else who happens to step or drive onto them. The ramblers don't care of course, one issue wonders.

Cracking day out, cheers Nige!!

Andy

No pictures of that though! ;)

Would have been a tad obvious!! She was fit though, not something you normally see!

On or around Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:46:44 +0000, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:

they will if they stand on one.

How many ramblers go tromping through muddy puddles when they can nearly always walk round? Not many...

The few I've heard about have been put into places that ramblers don't go, e.g. vehicle ruts or large puddles (which horses certainly go through).

It could of course be landowners putting some of them down, horse riders get aggro from landowners too, such as them deliberately trying to scare horses by charging them with tractors or pickups so they can certainly be evil enough.

Small boys with wellies? Try and keep them out!

Ah, OK but not just small boys with wellies, small girls are just as bad.

On or around Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:38:54 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

in my observation all children are fascinated by puddles. Some of us, of course, graduate from wellies to Land Rovers.

You Pussy Nige, I've only ever driven up that one :)

Used to do it in the LWB SIIa and had a bobble hat on with ear flaps as the roof was off and it was a bit chilly. Blokes in the Range Rover beihnd were giggling as I looked like Deputy Dawg every time the ear flaps bounced up and down. I spent the rest of the journey thinking there was something wrong with the Land Rover, all the essentials I took with me had bounced about that much that nothing sounded right, there were new rattles and clatters from that point on, most disconcerting once you get used to a particular cacophony only to have it all change.

All the best

when i last went laning my tailgate came open and emptied all my crap out of the back as i went up a hill! i noticed because it went so quiet on the bumps!

On or around Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:28:04 -0000, "Nige" enlightened us thusly:

You ever been and looked at Mam Tor?

If not, make the time to do so, and contemplate the fact that for all our much-vaunted engineering prowess we can't get a road to stay put reliably.

I don't recommend trying to drive it though - you'd need some sod-off bridging ladders.

I was standing there on the uphill side, in a moderate gale with rain blowing in me starboard lug-ole (i.e. normal weather for the peak district) looking at this bit where the road is suddenly 3ft lower than it should be, and my imagination took away the daylight, and substituted a classic Edgar Allan Poe style dark stormy night, with our hero driving home late through the wind and rain, crappy 70's headlamps with the wipers working overtime, and coming round a bend to find the road gone.

I'm hoping to take the 90 out near Sheffield this coming Sunday. Am going soft in my old age, nice to have a roof, doors and windscreen for a change.

All the best

Whereabouts you going and would you like some company? No worries if you don't, but I have this weekend, well Sunday, free for a change. ;)

It's some buys from the YORC forum bimbling around the Peak District, I'm going to be sitting on a flyover on the M1 somewhere below the M62 intersection, probably the Wakefield exit, around 8am. If I get bumped from there, it may well be the services a bit lower down. Look out for a desert cam 90 or a military green 90. my mobile in my sig, I won't hear it ring though but will eventually notice a text :)

I asked about dragging others along and the contact didn't seem too phased, so, all the more reason to turn up en masse :)

All the best